Out of Pod Experience

Strength through adversity.

-Radious Servasse

Working as Intended.

"What we have here is literally the top 1% of the top 1% screaming their lungs out over these nerfs, while trying to convince the rest of the player-base to think that CCP is ruining the game for everyone. What we are really doing is keeping it from becoming yet another hyper inflated virtual economy at the cost of pissing off a particular group of players. Prior to this patch, a relatively small group of players were making the same amount of isk in npc bounties as the entire player-base did a year ago.

Anyone closely following the MERs will know that NPC bounties are out of control and have been spiralling that way since Citadels. What sort of balanced gameplay is it when you can safely sit in a super making up to 260M ticks (EDIT: generally 140-170M, 260 is the largest observation, bad example)? Of course we know that supers are not solely to blame, VNI's, Ishtars, and basically every decent drone platform is responsible for a massive chunk of the bounty pool but not at nearly the same efficiency.

This isn't only screwing with the money supply but it's dramatically increasing RMT. When you can reliably sit and make 500M pure isk/hr** pr. account** (hence the number of "unsubbing 17 accounts" threads), some people choose to look at it this way: you can be making over minimum salaries in some countries in RMT.

Then people complain about us nerfing mining when the mineral price index has been in a freefall for a long time and the only reason it's not worse is that the massive increase in mining volume is directly feeding into the e.g. the massive increase in super demand to get in on the bounty grind.

Sure pass some of that rage over to me, I'd be happy to take some heat off CCP Larrikin's and Fozzie's shoulders."
CCP Quant

Yes and No.

1.
Yes he can link it, or yes, he should be able to link it.

2.
No, he didn't link it, and he can only link it later.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
- Leonardo da Vinci


Lacordaire: "La Providence gouverne le monde, mais elle a pris la vertu comme premier ministre."
- The Providence governs the world, but it has taken virtue as its prime minister.

Making everyone Happy is something also God cannot do.

-unknown-

"This has been the worst trade deal in the history of trade deals, maybe ever."

I like the word assassin, because it has twice as much *** as any other word.

Evolution
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change everything.
George Bernard Shaw

Practice
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
Yogi Berra

Opportunity
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes

Perseverance
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela

Inspiration
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Carl Sagan

Potential
You are never too old to set a new goal or dream a new dream.
CS. Lewis

Vision
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Warren Bennis

Tenacity
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Abraham Lincoln

Optimism
Come that may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance
Virgil

Wonder
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination and wonder.
Ronald Reagan

Organization
Chaos was the law of nature; order the dream of man
Henry Adams

Audacity
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
Alexander the Great

Vigilance
A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
Navjot Singh Sidhu

"I thought I probably shouldn't, but then just said 'What the hell' and did it."
-Many remorseful guys through all of the ages. E.g. convicts, non-condom wearers, forwarders of outside humor emails to office colleagues, etc., etc.